6 OCTOBER 1917, Page 12

" NELSON'S LAST DIARY."

(To THE EDITOR. OF THE " SPECTATOR...3 61R,—Referring to the review you kindly gave this book in your issue of September ?Ind, you may perhaps be interested to !earn that a full transcript of the Diary which contains the missing entries has lately been discovered at the British Museunn. It is mostly written in what appears to be Earl Nelson's handwriting, but the first few pages ore in another hand and the codicil in a third. These lacunae Inure now been printed as a star leaf for insertion at p. 20 of the volume.—I am, Sir, he..

ELEIN MATHEWS.